GIRLS`GENERATION 少女時代_GALAXY SUPERNOVA

How on earth did I miss that??? I totally love this new song from Girl's Generation ... catchy tune and great dance moves! Well this one is Japanese version but I love it all the same!

Actually I was waiting for Master's Sun Episode 14 but with an hour time difference with Seoul and the fact that I forgot the show aired today, meaning I will only get to see the episode with English subtitle tomorrow (deng!).

Guess I will just dance myself away tonight ...

Love From Down Under

MJ

Dami Im - X Factor Australia 2013

Mak sebenarnya bukan seorang peminat talent show. Kalau takde citer best kat TV or kebetulan my family and friends are watching, baru mak akan join sekali. Reasons? 

Hmmm ... mak pernah join satu talent show in NTV7 few years back and despite mak dapat lah glamour sekejap, many aspect of the talent show tu mak rasa sangat fake. U don't really meet or see the celebrity judges during audition. And if you really want to be spotted by camera ... don't think u can just come to the audition with your talent ... wear something weird atau "celebrity worthy" ... I can assure you, at least on Malaysian TV ... you will get notice! 

Oh by the way, I auditioned for 2 talent shows ... another one being Malaysian Idol. Thank God ... the person yang menang memang deserve the title ... else I will forever lost respect for the entertainment industry (nak juga mengaku diva kannn ...hahaha)

Anyway, mak punya uni mate suker betul dengan X-Factor Australia 2013. Well, can't blame him ... takde citer best sangat on Australian TV kat Brisbane it. Kalau ada duit lebih, subscribe lah FOXTEL. So on student budget, we went for chanel-chanel yang sedia adalah kat Queensland ni hahaha

However, this Korean-descent contestant memang caught mak punya attention. Her name is Dami Im. Maybe sebab rupa dia yang Korean totok, tanpa plastic surgery and she lives in Brisbane yang buat mak interested. Mula-mula mak tengok audition dia on X-Factor Australia mak rasa biasa-biasa jer. Yelaaa kalau bagi kat contestants for American Idol mesti macam-macam "feel" or "tarikan suara" depa akan buat.

Then, she screwed up during Super Boot Camp performance sebab dia rasa inferior compared to other contestants during the Super Boot Camp sampai lupa lirik. Memang bila mak tengok clip ni balik mak rasa kesian lah dengan Dami, know how it felt to be humiliated on national TV (though memang salah sendiri kannn).

So she didn't went through Super Boot Camp and she was not selected for the home visits. But maybe it was fate, suddenly one of the contestants tarik diri due to personal reasons and she got back in. Hmm so lucky!  But I guess the second chance ni memang gave her a new lease of life and boost her confidence as well.

And then we kept on seeing mesmerising performances, starting with this performance on Week 1. Mula-mula mak takut jugak sebab Dami never heard this song before (she is a K-pop fan) and she also screwed up playing the piano during Super Boot Camp. But time dia tarik tu ... mak memang tau, she dah dapat that "feel" and "stage command". Kalau mak pun ... mak akan tutup mata and sing my heart out!

Okay ... masa mak carik video Live Show Week 2 Dami on X Factor Channel Australia, terkejut mak bila tengok video deleted! Biar betul ... katernya ada claim from Controversy Music ... katenyerrr ...  Memang performance yang meletup and deserve a standing ovation!

Week 3 Live Show memang dinanti-nanti oleh mak. And entah kenapa macam Danii Minogue macam paham jer mood mak yang banyak dipengaruhi oleh music disco sejak dua menjak ni. And she really mentored Dami well, making Dami a very versatile entertainer! Perasan tak, performance ni adalah ala2 K-pop sikit hahaha.

Entah macam manalah her performance next week. Tak sabar rasanya. Nampak kan her evolution daripada penyanyi yang malu-malu ke super diva. By the way, mak geram betul lah line broadband rumah mak ni ... sucks giler! Loading lambat, putus-putus .... eeee memang nak kena komplen ni!

Ok lah ... mak nak tido dulu. Dah 2 malam tido lewat sebab carik bahan for blog mak ni. Sebenarnya nak tulis benda lain ... tapi entah kenapa tertulis pulak pasal si Dami ni ... 

Love From Down Under,

MJ

Note:

Btw ... another contestant worth watching on X-Factor Australia  ... Jiordan Tolli!

Embracing Today's Pop Culture

Sejak duduk di Brisbane ni, mak suka betul dengar UK pop, jazz music and lately yang ada elemen disco or 80s-90s pop. And selain Masterchef Australia, mak rasa Australia's X Factor pun best ... Vocal taklah sehebat American Idol finalists tapi soulfull gitew. Sometimes dengar iklan depa kat TV, mesti ada lagu-lagu menarik mak mesti akan try google based on lirik yang sempat mak tangkap.

Sekarang ni mak suka betul dengar Love Me Again By John Newman lepas dengar kat iklan promosi satu TV series. Mak rasa after Adele and Amy Winehouse, UK pop macam semakin mendapat perhatian. Setiap kali lagu ni berkumandang, mak mesti rasa kena fly to London ... oh how I miss London!

The next song is not a new song tapi mak takde masa nak carik singer dia. So when masa iklan Australia Dancing With The Stars they played this song ... mak pun terdetik nak cari. Finally lepas berhempas pulas I finally jumpa Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Pharell. Terkejut mak ...bayangkan ... this song was in Daft Punk - Random Access Memories album yang mak beli for my friend in Paris and I was not even aware of it!

Don't you just love Disco? Rasa nak menari kan? Sangat 70s-80s gitew

Pharell memang boleh tahan, I mean this year memang his year lah. Selain ni, satu collaboration dier dengan Canadian singer Robin Thicke pun top the AT40 chart these few weeks. Mak suker betul dengan Blurred Line ... another R&B disco yang memang mak bersemangat setiap kali stress study. When mak browse pasal Robin Thicke ni ... rupa-rupanya masa heols first jadi artist heols taklah "sehot' sekarang, selekeh hokey ... like hippies.

Rasanya tak lengkap list mak kalau tak include another disco pop yang sedang meletup sekarang ni ... Treasure by Bruno Mars. Frankly, lagu-lagu Bruno Mars tak pernah mengecewakan and he is so versatile. Selain this song, mak suka juga Locked Out in Heaven lepas dengar dalam Glee. Like Get Lucky ... this song pun boleh buat kita rasa nak menari jugak.

As I was researching the songs to be featured in this entry, mak found out that another of my favourite Primadonna by Marina and The Diamonds (Welsh singer) pun ada sikit elemen disco dengan electro pop. Mak pernah dengar lagu ni kat radio Malaysia but malas nak cari sapa singer. Then masa mak cari-cari video about androgynous model Andrej Pejic, ada pulak background music lagu ni.

Tak tahu lah kenapa but music electro pop ni macam lebih sesuai belah-belah Europe ni, maybe sebab cara depa speak English kot no?

Haa ... the last song to be featured in this entry is electro-pop I Love It by Icona Pop (Swedish duo). Mak suka dengar lagu ni lepas iklan keta Mitsubishi dalam TV Australia guna this song as the theme song. Kalau dengar gitu gitu tak best, sekali lepas masuk iklan macam best pulak. Sampai humming dalam bas nak gi ke uni.

Ok .. I am signing off now. Hope you guys enjoy seleksi mak untuk kali ni.

Love From Down Under
MJ

Anak Kampung & Gangnam Style

Dari semalam lagi sebenarnya mak nak share pasal lagu yang tengah gone viral since last July ... Gangnam Style. Tapi seronok-seronok mak check-check youtube pasal video Gangnam Style ni ... mak teringat pasal lagu Anak Kampung pula.

Sebenarnya mak rasa 2 lagu ni banyak persamaan. First lagu ni pasal kehidupan - satu pasal kampung dan miskin and satu pasal bandar dan kaya. Kedua, lepas lagu tu feymes ... mulalah keluar banyak versi on youtube (female version lah, parody lah dan sebagainya). Ketiga, kedua-dua lagu have very catchy tunes - satu in ethnic creative Sabahan way, satu modern K-pop way. Keempat, kedua-dua lagu memperkenalkan music culture masing-masing ke pasaran yang tidak dijangka - Anak Kampung kepada penduduk Malaysia di Semenanjung manakala Gangnam Style menembusi pasaran Eropah yang kurang familiar dengan K-pop (Amerika dan Asia ni memang dah feymes K-pop ni).

Masa mak mula dengar lagu Anak Kampung ... time tu mak tengah jalan-jalan dengan kawan mak kat Penang lah. Mak ketawa betul-betul sebab mesejnya mudah difahami, liriknya dalam slang Sabah yang memang lucu serta membangkitkan nostalgia dan ofkos muziknya pun memang nak buat kita menari Sumazau. Bak kata orang Sabah .... syiookkkkkk bah! Sapa yang tak pernah dengar original version Anak Kampung ni ... ni mak share.

Anak Kampung Original

Anak Kampung Female Parody

Anak Kampung featuring One Nation Emcee (moden punya lah)

Okay pasal Gangnam Style ni, sebenarnya mak first dengar lagu Gangnam Style ni on Red.fm tapi masa tu mak takde perasaan lah sebab yelah otak mak time tu fokus macam mana nak redah jam kat George Town. Tapi mak perasan dia ada sedikit elemen shuffling macam LMFAO. Tapi mak suspect mesti American Korean lah sebab sebutan English dia perfect sikit. Then mak Gayah BBM mak .... "Jemah, ko dah tengok ker video Gangnam style Jemah". Kalau Gayah yang tak minat Korea boleh merembes lepas tengok Gangnam Style ... harus lah mak tengok jugak kannnnn. Haaaa kau ... terus beratus kali ulang video Gangnam Style tu mak mainkan. 

PSY Gangnam Style Original


PSY Gangnam featuring Hyuna (kira female version lah)


Gangnam (Super Kampung Style) oleh Fly.fm

Natijahnya, dunia sekarang memang sangat stress dan perlu banyak keceriaan. Sometimes tak perlu lah nak tulis lirik yang berbunga-bunga atau klip video yang penuh aksi yang mengghairahkan nak sebab bagi laku album. Anak Kampung dan Gangnam Style ni dah membuktikan bahawa just create something closer to home and everyone can relate to it ... sure boleh jual punya album tu. 

Oh ya ... baru perasan satu lagi persamaan ... mau jadi artis terkenal dan kasi album laku tak semestinya muka hensem, penting kreatif dan sesuwaiiiiii dengan jiwa mak hahaha